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Soupy Sales

Born · January 28, 1926

Died · October 22, 2009 (83 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Franklinton, North Carolina, USA

Bio

Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales, a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City. Sales is best known for his daily children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales. The show was originally called 12 O'Clock Comics, and was later known as The Soupy Sales Show. Improvised and slapstick in nature, Lunch with Soupy Sales was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags, and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. Sales developed pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, moving into a stationary pie, and countless other variations. He claimed that he and his visitors had been hit by more than 20,000 pies during his career. He recounted a time when a young fan mistakenly threw a frozen pie at his neck and he "dropped like a pile of bricks."

Known for

Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

Wings

Wings

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Self (archive footage)

2016

Black Scorpion Returns

Sonny Dey / Professor Prophet

2001

Behind the Seams

Doorman

2000

A Little Bit of Lipstck

Max

2000

Palmer's Pick-Up

Ernie Bolza

1999

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self · (1 episode)

1996

The Making of '...And God Spoke'

Moses

1994

Boy Meets World

(1 episode)

1993

Wings

(1 episode)

1990

True Blue

(1 episode)

1989

Monsters

(1 episode)

1988

Saturday Supercade

Donkey Kong (voice) · (32 episodes)

1983

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong (voice) · (20 episodes)

1983

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Santola

1977

The Love Boat

Victor Marshall · (1 episode)

1977

Love, American Style

(2 episodes)

1969

The Barbara McNair Show

Self · (2 episodes)

1969

The Johnny Cash Show

Self · (1 episode)

1969

The Carol Burnett Show

Self · (3 episodes)

1967

Bill's Hat

1967

Murder at N.B.C.

1966

Birds Do It

Melvin Byrd

1966

The Dean Martin Show

(1 episode)

1965

Hullabaloo

Self · (1 episode)

1965

Hullabaloo

Self - Host · (1 episode)

1965

The Hollywood Palace

Self · (1 episode)

1964

The Judy Garland Show

Self · (1 episode)

1963

Burke's Law

Henry Geller · (1 episode)

1963

Vacation Playhouse

Fireman Smokey · (1 episode)

1963

Vacation Playhouse

Fred Brady · (1 episode)

1963

The Merv Griffin Show

Self · (1 episode)

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self · (3 episodes)

1962

The Beverly Hillbillies

(2 episodes)

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - Co-Host · (6 episodes)

1961

The Mike Douglas Show

Self · (3 episodes)

1961

The Two Little Bears

Officer McGovern

1961

Route 66

(1 episode)

1960

The Rebel

Stable Owner · (1 episode)

1959

The Rebel

Meyers · (1 episode)

1959

Hennesey

(1 episode)

1959

Kraft Music Hall

Self · (1 episode)

1958

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Self - Guest Host · (2 episodes)

1957

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest · (3 episodes)

1950

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self · (3 episodes)

1948